Tag Otto Dix

Leda, 1919
OttoDix
In his foreword to the 1919 exhibition catalogue devoted to the group's prints Grohmann introduced Dix this way " OttoDix appeared at Easter with brutal force, and all sorts of expectations were aroused. At the moment he is laughing heartily at himself, at art, and at...

Dix's Die Skatspieler ( The Skat Players ) of 1920 shows three mutilated veterans, former officers,
playing cards in a gaslit pub. So deformed are they by their injuries that they are forced to play
with prophetic hands or with their mouths or feet. Little is left of these maimed figures,
yet...

Original name "Selbstbildnis als Soldat"
OttoDix (December 2, 1891 - July 25, 1969) was a German expressionist and anti-war painter and a veteran of the First World War. His most famous paintings were a (1928) triptych Metropolis and Trench Warfare (1932).
OttoDix was born in Untermhaus,...